Cristina Rocha, Ph.D. (2004, University of Western Sydney) is a Research Fellow at the Religion and Society Research Centre and a Senior Lecturer at the School of Humanities and Communications, Arts, University of Western Sydney, Australia. She is the editor of the Journal of Global Buddhism. Her publications include Buddhism in Australia (with M. Barker, Routledge, 2010) and Zen in Brazil: The Quest for Cosmopolitan Modernity (Hawaii UP, 2006).Manuel A. Vásquez, Ph.D. (1994, Temple University) is Professor at the Religion Department, University of Florida. He is the author of More than Belief: A Materialist Theory of Religion (Oxford UP, 2011) and The Brazilian Popular Church and the Crisis of Modernity (Cambridge UP, 1998). He also co-authored Living ‘Illegal’: The Human Face of Unauthorized Immigration (New Press, 2011) and Globalizing the Sacred: Religion across the Americas (Rutgers, 2003).

"This pioneering volume invites further research, for better understanding of the religions of the Global South via the new theories about globalisation: the glocalisation, trans-ethnicisation and transnationalisation of religion."J.E. Castillo Guerra, University of Nijmegen in Journal of Empirical Theology 28 (2015), 140-141.

Cristina Rocha, Ph.D. (2004, University of Western Sydney) is a Research Fellow at the Religion and Society Research Centre and a Senior Lecturer at the School of Humanities and Communications, Arts, University of Western Sydney, Australia. She is the editor of the Journal of Global Buddhism. Her publications include Buddhism in Australia (with M. Barker, Routledge, 2010) and Zen in Brazil: The Quest for Cosmopolitan Modernity (Hawaii UP, 2006).Manuel A. Vásquez, Ph.D. (1994, Temple University) is Professor at the Religion Department, University of Florida. He is the author of More than Belief: A Materialist Theory of Religion (Oxford UP, 2011) and The Brazilian Popular Church and the Crisis of Modernity (Cambridge UP, 1998). He also co-authored Living ‘Illegal’: The Human Face of Unauthorized Immigration (New Press, 2011) and Globalizing the Sacred: Religion across the Americas (Rutgers, 2003).

"This pioneering volume invites further research, for better understanding of the religions of the Global South via the new theories about globalisation: the glocalisation, trans-ethnicisation and transnationalisation of religion."J.E. Castillo Guerra, University of Nijmegen in Journal of Empirical Theology 28 (2015), 140-141.

Cristina Rocha, Ph.D. (2004, University of Western Sydney) is a Research Fellow at the Religion and Society Research Centre and a Senior Lecturer at the School of Humanities and Communications, Arts, University of Western Sydney, Australia. She is the editor of the Journal of Global Buddhism. Her publications include Buddhism in Australia (with M. Barker, Routledge, 2010) and Zen in Brazil: The Quest for Cosmopolitan Modernity (Hawaii UP, 2006).Manuel A. Vásquez, Ph.D. (1994, Temple University) is Professor at the Religion Department, University of Florida. He is the author of More than Belief: A Materialist Theory of Religion (Oxford UP, 2011) and The Brazilian Popular Church and the Crisis of Modernity (Cambridge UP, 1998). He also co-authored Living ‘Illegal’: The Human Face of Unauthorized Immigration (New Press, 2011) and Globalizing the Sacred: Religion across the Americas (Rutgers, 2003).

"This pioneering volume invites further research, for better understanding of the religions of the Global South via the new theories about globalisation: the glocalisation, trans-ethnicisation and transnationalisation of religion."J.E. Castillo Guerra, University of Nijmegen in Journal of Empirical Theology 28 (2015), 140-141.